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How Does Scrooge Change In A Christmas Carol

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Scrooge’s changes The story A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens. In the book A Christmas Carol Scrooge was mean at the beginning but as the book kept going he was visited by 3 ghost and by the end Scrooge is no longer mean to people. In stave 1 Scrooge rejected the poorly men for donations and after he did that he felt good about it. After that that Marley's ghost appeared and still Scrooge did not show any emotion even though he was a bit frightened. The last thing that Scrooge sees is that the phantoms are trying to help people and Scrooge started to show a little emotion. Scrooge begin to show same emotion is stave 2. The ghost then took Scrooge to see his childhood. Scrooge became surprised and a single tear appeared on his

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